SOP, as the name implies, is doing something the same way, every time you do it. For a professional flight department, it means that every time you fly with a different pilot, there is virtually no difference in the way you fly. No difference because everyone follows the same or "standard procedure". Of course the benefits go far beyond being familiar with your fellow pilot. The benefits include: proficiency by routine (getting good at a procedure by doing it over and over), ability to quickly recognize discrepancies, ability to multi task more easily when conditions require. Procedures are usually written for every phase of flight. These procedures include among other things: callouts, checklist, hand positions, briefings, monitoring, and flight procedures. This training set include examples of SOPs for different phases of flight. These are procedures that might be employed by a single pilot operator.

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